Are you tired of pop-ups, viruses, and spyware infecting your computer, no matter what you try to do? I know I am not, because unlike 99% of folks using computers I know how to avoid it, even though I run Windows XP on my work laptop.
With that being said, today is the day I finally made the switch away from Internet Explorer completely by downloading and installing Firefox, the best browser on the market today. I have been running it for a while on my home Linux machine for a while, but I finally got around to putting it on my work laptop as well.
If you are looking for a way to make your computer infinitely more usable and you just don't have the smarts that I do, Firefox will get you up to speed fast!
You don't have to uninstall Internet Explorer - in fact, on most versions of Windows you can't because it's built right into the system!
If you are using Windows XP you should be able to click Start -> Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults and disable access to Internet Explorer - it's the next best thing! It will also allow you to set Firefox as your default browser.
As far as everything opening automatically, everything pretty much works the same - except better!